Boom boom! Boom boom boom!

Urgent drumbeats and dark clouds filled the sky as a killing aura pervaded the North Continent’s borders.

The demon horde below was no longer as apprehensive as last time. Currently, most of the demon tribe remained unaware of the great calamity, mindlessly gathering here following their Demon Kings. Days ago, they had mindlessly driven back the Celestial Court’s army;

This time, they still mindlessly charged to various peaks, brandishing weapons while howling and yelling chaotically, making shows of force toward those above.

Demon King banners rose on all peaks, the mountains full of celestial demon soldiers.

Today, however, the Celestial Soldiers and Generals displayed a completely different bearing from last time.

They…

Started forming formations from far away. The Celestial Soldiers and Generals converging from the West Heavenly Gate, North Heavenly Gate, and Central Heavenly Gate orderly arranged themselves into the upper three layers, middle three layers, and lower three layers. Battle formations crisscrossed horizontally and vertically, yet formed an interconnected whole.

Ready to both attack and defend, leaving the demon horde below completely unable to act rashly, yet unable to fathom the coming changes in the Celestial Court’s battle formation.

The emphasis was on stability.

A white cloud pressed down from high above, with various division banners rising throughout the sky!

This white cloud was surrounded by immortal light and divine radiance shining upon the white-haired, white-robed elder at the front—none other than the Celestial Court’s Water God!

Li Longshou arrived leading dozens of Celestial Generals, left hand holding a horsetail whisk, right hand holding the Jade Emperor’s Divine Authority Sword against his chest, the Water God’s Divine Authority Treasure Dark Martial Banner fluttering behind him.

Amid the drumbeats seemed to be the sound of endless waves crashing, as if an ocean in the sky would crash down upon the demon horde below!

Just as this white cloud took position, a gray cloud flew in from the north. Upon it stood hundreds of dragon-headed human-bodied dragon clan experts, each wearing battle armor with stern expressions, arriving before the Water God’s carriage and bowing together.

The experts dispatched by the Four Sea Dragon Kings had arrived, bringing along over a thousand battle shamans from the Shaman Tribe, each overflowing with blood energy and formidable strength.

High in the sky, dragon roars penetrated the nine heavens.

The Nine Dragons Carriage flew past, the Jade Emperor seated within, inspecting the Celestial Court’s great army within a thousand-mile radius, drawing the gazes of Celestial Soldiers and Generals.

Regarding today’s events, future storytellers might have such a passage:

[Honored guests, please listen well as we speak of the time before the calamity.

Ancient demons gathered in rebellion, wrongly calculating to oppose Heaven.

The Water God first set delaying strategies, while Elder Dong Mu presided in the Hall of Clear Understanding.

Various immortals and deities descended into tribulation, just waiting for the Jade Emperor’s return to the Nine Heavens.

The Jade Emperor underwent tribulation for all living beings, who knew demon hordes would stir up waves.

The Celestial Court’s pillars fell to demon schemes, and immortals and deities trembled with uneasy hearts.

Elder Dong Mu knelt to request the Emperor’s return, the Jade Emperor wished to slay the demon horde.

But the Celestial Court lacked commanders, forced to seek help from the Severing and Enlightenment Sects.

The Severing and Enlightenment disciples spoke mockingly, Spirit Mountain further drove away Elder Dong Mu.

The Jade Emperor hatefully withdrew troops temporarily, bowing to weep before the Purple Void.

The Dao Ancestor Lord initiated the canonization of gods, Severing, and Enlightenment, and Spirit Mountain couldn’t escape danger.

The Water God recovered and returned to the Celestial Court, offering strategies to eliminate demons and stabilize the realm.

Nine Heavens’ immortal soldiers mobilized together, three hundred Celestial Generals arrayed in formation.

The Jade Emperor’s precious carriage traversed the void, old mountain demons lost their nerve.

The Water God wielded the Divine Sword, insects and birds scattered for ten thousand miles.

Moreover!

The Heavenly River Navy’s various commanders and Heavenly Gate Marshals displayed majesty.

The Four Sea Dragon Kings dispatched troops, Shaman Tribe battle shamans wished to strike.

Yin winds blew in gusts, bringing the netherworld’s various ghost immortals.

The Three Realms moved as one to eliminate demon troubles, for the sky to clear and earth to be at peace.

The Water God stepped forward to speak Heaven’s principles, and the demon horde cursed before the formation in defiance.

To know how this battle was fought, honored guests!

*Bang!* (Judgment block falls)

Hehehe, first reward this old man with some wine money.]

After the Jade Emperor concealed himself in the Nine Heavens above, Li Longshou raised his hand. The drumbeats behind him stopped as he alone rode a white cloud slightly downward, lowering his head to sweep his gaze across the densely packed demon soldiers on the ground.

Just one glance and the demon horde’s shouts instantly ceased.

Li Longshou slowly spoke, his voice like a great bell reverberating back and forth between heaven and earth, from slow to fast, matching his gradually increasing prestige:

“I am the Celestial Court’s Water God. Today by His Majesty’s command, I come to subjugate demon rebels who oppose Heaven!

You demon tribe, originally transformed from the myriad beings, defy Heaven’s mandate and reject the righteous path, disregarding the ancient demon tribe’s oath!

When you first rebelled, I considered how the myriad beings’ cultivation is not easy, and how various living beings were forced by powerful demons, still leaving you much leeway.

However, demons like Lu Ya of your demon tribe kill with cruelty, fail to recognize favor, and even plot against my Celestial Court’s important minister. Such evil hearts cannot be fully recorded even with bamboo strips!

The Celestial Court upholds Heaven’s principles, protects the Three Realms, and blesses all living beings. The Celestial Court’s proper deities are all appointed by His Majesty the Jade Emperor, devoted to Heaven’s operation, yet suffer such bullying from the demon tribe!

Today the Celestial Court follows His Majesty the Jade Emperor’s decree to raise troops and subjugate you!

When the great banner falls, you shall surely be scattered to ash and smoke!

If there are any who surrender, their forms shall be extinguished now, their remaining souls preserved to join the Six Paths of Reincarnation!

Where are the Netherworld’s Yin Officials?”

As soon as Li Longshou’s voice fell, patches of yin clouds appeared in the southwest, revealing a hundred thousand yin soldiers and several hundred ghost officials within, all bowing toward Li Longshou.

Ox-Head and Horse-Face called out loudly: “We come following the Celestial Court’s orders, requesting Water God to command!”

Li Longshou’s hair and beard stood up as he gave the demon tribe no chance to retort, calling out firmly:

“Shortly you shall be ordered to arrest souls!

Any Celestial Soldiers who die today shall enter reincarnation through the Heaven-Human Path, granted blessings and soul healing!

Any demons who harm Celestial Soldiers today shall suffer in the Eighteen Layers of Hell, and when reborn cannot enter the upper three paths!”

Ox-Head and Horse-Face responded in unison:

“Yes!”

The demon horde below fell silent, many demons trembling with anger, great and lesser demons alike struck with terror.

A great demon stepped out of formation to curse: “Water God, you abuse divine authority and disregard all beings!

The Six Paths of Reincarnation originally belonged to Heaven, Earth, and all beings. What divine authority does your Celestial Court have to interfere!”

Li Longshou calmly said: “The Three Realms are one body, with the Celestial Court coordinating from the center.

You are already a stubborn disease among living beings, already the root cause of calamity for all beings, yet still cling to ancient dreams, still not knowing you have already defeated dogs—truly laughable.

Eliminating you today, henceforth all transformed beings can choose their paths!

I advise all beings here, if you have no karmic obstacles or sins, put down your weapons now and turn away from this place.

All divisions listen—if such demons turn and leave, do not block them.”

As the words fell, the demon tribe below again sank into silence.

At this time, the Dragon Palace, Netherworld, and Shaman Tribe were like observers. Except for the Shaman Tribe, all had understood something.

The Water God and these demons’ leaders were not on the same level at all.

Opening with three moves to first break the enemy’s morale—first establishing the legitimacy of the Celestial Court’s campaign, then using continuously appearing experts to directly pressure and shake demon tribe morale, and then simply summoning Netherworld ghost officials to use reincarnation matters, thoroughly shattering demon tribe morale.

How to fight this?

The odds of winning in direct combat were low, after death, they would be dragged to the Eighteen Layers of Hell to suffer, and if they won they would invite Heaven’s lightning strikes…

And now, the Water God took the initiative to step back, letting demons here with clean backgrounds and good origins turn and leave, dividing the demon horde.

Killing demons, striking at hearts, yet not wanting their side to suffer too many losses.

The Water God’s strategy was already displayed perfectly in these brief exchanges.

At this moment, there were marginal demons who threw down their magical treasures and turned to fly swiftly toward the horizon.

But before these few demons could fly several miles, a black shadow flashed past extremely quickly. The demons directly exploded into blood mist in mid-air, not even leaving half a trace of their souls.

That black shadow transformed into the appearance of a middle-aged man with a pair of wings on his back, his whole body emanating shocking pressure.

This demon said loudly: “Water God, you bully us too much!

Our demon tribe’s lifeline is here, our destiny is here, and our foundation is here. All transformed beings were originally demons—could it be you don’t even know the covenant atop Mount Buzhou in ancient times?”

Li Longshou calmly said: “The ancient covenant was buried with the Demon Court. Now it is great demons like you with evil intentions and wild ambitions that make all beings uneasy and cause heaven and earth to shake.

You just mentioned the demon tribe’s destiny?”

Casually putting away his horsetail whisk, he unhurriedly took out a seal from his sleeve.

This seal was currently covered by a blood-stained yellow cloth. Li Longshou casually unveiled the cloth, revealing its true appearance.

In an instant!

Below, Demon Qi rolled as hundreds of Demon Kings roared together. Dozens of demon clan experts who had come from ancient times charged into mid-air, glaring at the object in Li Longshou’s palm!

This was a great seal with Heaven’s power still lingering upon it.

Around the seal were carved various great demons, its reliefs divided into six levels. The topmost level showed two Golden Crows spreading wings and crying out, the second-to-last level showed a Kun Peng supporting the bottom, with ten giant demons raising their heads to roar…

The Demon Emperor’s Seal!

Li Longshou leisurely said: “Some days ago I was ambushed by a Golden Crow and over ten ancient demons. Fortunately, with my master’s protection, I was able to slay that Golden Crow and obtain this object.

Is this your demon tribe’s destiny?”

Several old demons shouted in rebuke:

“Water God, you dare!”

“Just return the seal and we will withdraw troops immediately, submitting to the Celestial Court’s command!”

“His Highness indeed fell to your poison!”

Li Longshou’s expression gradually turned cold as he casually tossed up the great seal.

Below, the demon horde made to charge forward. The dragon clan experts on their side, the Shaman Tribe’s group of battle shamans, and the Celestial Generals behind Li Longshou all prepared to meet them!

But then came the clear ring of a sword. A flash of golden light lit heaven and earth as Li Longshou drew the Divine Authority Sword from its scabbard. That flowing water-like sword body reflected the demon horde’s anxious faces below as he slashed horizontally, the sword edge falling beside the Demon Emperor’s Seal!

Between heaven and earth, all paths trembled!

Lightning flashed in the Nine Heavens above, and the Five Continents’ great earth shook together.

Almost all beings within ten thousand miles fell silent, gazes gathering upon the Demon Emperor’s Seal, watching that Heaven’s sword be blocked by the seal for an instant;

Watching that Heaven’s sword seemingly effortlessly cut into the Demon Emperor’s Seal;

Watching…

Li Longshou slice the Demon Emperor’s Seal in two with one stroke!

Streaks of golden light surged above the demon horde’s heads, transforming into a Golden Crow that raised its head to screech at Li Longshou;

Li Longshou coldly snorted, thunder roaring behind him as the Jade Emperor’s carriage appeared in the Nine Heavens above, nine golden dragons opening their mouths to roar down!

The Golden Crow spread its wings and flew out a thousand zhang, its body suddenly collapsing;

Those nine golden dragons who were about to attack coiled once, exploding into a golden light that entered around the Celestial Soldiers and Generals, Netherworld ghost officials, dragon clan, and Shaman Tribe members.

Li Longshou’s expression was cold as he looked down, his robes billowing as he put away the two halves of the Demon Emperor’s Seal and stood upon the cloud holding the Divine Sword.

“Those who do not surrender shall have their souls scattered;

Those who surrender shall have their souls preserved.”

Below, the demon horde trembled and war drums sounded. Various Demon Kings seemed to enter calamity, all attacked by fury with reddened eyes.

Killing qi rolled as heaven-shocking killing intent arose.

Li Longshou slowly nodded, turning to cup his hands and report: “Your Majesty, the demon horde refuses to surrender and fights to the death. This minor deity requests Heaven’s mandate to sweep away demons here and protect Heaven and earth’s clarity.”

The Jade Emperor’s voice came from high above: “Granted.”

Li Longshou suddenly turned, raising Heaven’s sword high, closing his eyes as his spiritual power instantly reached its peak!

Heaven and earth, great spiritual explosion!

Without the need for angry rebukes or loud shouts, the earth suddenly began to shake. Just at the nine mountain peaks where the demon tribe’s elite gathered, the mountaintops were suddenly overturned as spiritual power instantly boiled. Nine spots of light simultaneously exploded on the ground!

Their light outshone the ancient ten suns appearing together!

Their power shook heaven and earth, making immortals and deities tremble in fear.

Li Longshou used almost all his Golden Core Golden Immortal realm paper clones as fuses, bringing out his accumulation from these twelve years, freely splashing the tree sap given by Little Qiong Peak’s giant wood forest, pouring in the immortal power he had infused for nearly twelve years.

As the spiritual power storm subsided, the demon tribe’s formation below was thrown into chaos. Great demons above and below could barely take care of themselves as nine mountain peaks transformed into great pits…

Perhaps Li Longshou’s heavy blow hadn’t killed even two-tenths of the demon tribe’s forces—the enemy was too spread out, and during the spiritual explosion process, quite a few demon experts had escaped in time.

But now, the demon tribe’s grief and indignation had vanished like smoke. Those ancient great demons had also calmed down…

Li Longshou’s raised sword finally lowered as he opened his eyes, filled only with frost.

“Today I command killing, to eliminate the demon tribe here.

Kill.”

The Celestial Soldiers in the sky responded in unison as war drums sounded and winds fell. Celestial Soldiers and Generals deployed divine abilities to suppress the demon horde!

High in the sky, Li Longshou’s figure dove down!

Just then, water-blue light bloomed at the horizon as Baize strode forth. Lightning bloomed from its back, precisely striking Li Longshou’s chest amid the armies.

In a flash, Li Longshou withdrew his paper clones, his true body joining the battle formation.

With the Mysterious Yellow Treasure Pagoda above his head, Divine Sword in his left hand, and Heaven-Earth Ruler in his right, he plunged into that group of ancient great demons.

All Things are in Balance!

The Heaven Sword bloomed!

…

In the carriage high in the sky, His Majesty the Jade Emperor, wearing golden armor and leaning on a great sword, coolly… watched the great battle below.

Beloved Minister Changsheng…

Simply extraordinary.

Extraordinary in berating, extraordinary in strategizing, extraordinary in breaking formations, and even this fierce in magical combat.

It’s just that the Celestial Court’s battle generals are currently unsuitable for major tasks, forcing Changsheng to charge into battle. After the canonization of gods, the Celestial Court should have usable generals, allowing beloved Minister Changsheng to worry less.

The Dao Ancestor Lord’s words “Changsheng can be fully trusted, need not hesitate” probably referred to Changsheng as having such combat ability.

It’s just…

Sigh, being Jade Emperor like this leaves no sense of presence.

Those great demons are still running—what are they running for? Don’t they understand “capture the leader to capture the bandits,” that to slay immortals they should first attack him, the immortal leader?

Really…

A Jade Emperor’s daily life is truly boring, constrained, and dull.

Better think about Hua Yun and that fellow Yang Tianyou’s matter.

Hmph, although this Yang Tianyou is close to me if he had nodded before, saying in front of Hua Yun that he intended to remarry, my Celestial Court’s divine thunder would have struck down.

Hua Yun and Changsheng are quite compatible… however, Changsheng somewhat avoids even handling the Chang’e sisters, and with Longji for so long, they’ve increasingly become more like teachers and students.

Tsk, has that Fairy Yunxiao truly captured beloved Minister Changsheng?

The Jade Emperor looked down, the precious sword in his hand lightly trembling as more streaks of golden light empowered the various Celestial Generals below.

The next avatar should also be put on the agenda.